1901–1983 · United States · Photographer
Lisette Model
Frank, close-up street portraits with a blunt humanism.
Promenade des Anglais, 1934Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1903–1993 · MEXICO
Lola Alvarez Bravo
Modernist portraits and street pictures of postrevolutionary Mexico.
- Born
- 1903
- Died
- 1993
- Country
- Mexico
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1953Galería de Arte Contemporáneo (Frida Kahlo exhibition)
- 1950De Generación en generación
WHY THEY MATTER
Key figure of Mexican modernist photography; her gallery staged the only Mexican exhibition of Frida Kahlo held in Kahlo's lifetime (1953).
THE LIFE
Lola Alvarez Bravo was one of the leading Mexican photographers of the twentieth century. She learned photography alongside her husband Manuel Alvarez Bravo and built her own career after they separated in 1934. Her pictures favour the quiet meanings of everyday life over posed or ideological compositions. Through her Galeria de Arte Contemporaneo she staged in 1953 the only exhibition of her friend Frida Kahlo's work held in Mexico during Kahlo's lifetime.
Also born in 1900–1929
1902–1984 · United States · Photographer
Ansel Adams
Sharp black-and-white landscapes of the American West with full tonal range.
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941Source: Wikipedia
1902–2002 · Mexico · Photographer
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Poetic, quietly surreal views of Mexican life.
Striking Worker, Assassinated, 1934Source: Wikipedia
1903–1975 · United States · Photographer
Walker Evans
Frontal, plain-spoken records of American vernacular life.
American Photographs, 1938Source: Wikipedia
1904–1983 · United Kingdom · Photographer
Bill Brandt
High-contrast social documentary, then distorted nudes and stark landscapes.
The English at Home, 1936Source: Wikipedia
1904–1999 · Argentina · Photographer
Grete Stern
Surreal photomontages and modernist portraits.
Los Sueños (for Idilio), 1948Source: Wikipedia